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The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
Nuclear power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority Name Units Capacity (MWe) Location Year of commission Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant: 3 3,775 Limestone County, Alabama: 1974 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant: 2 2,333 Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee: 1981 Watts Bar Nuclear Plant: 2 2,332 Rhea County, Tennessee: 1996
Alcoa, Tennessee, formerly owned by Alcoa and still economically dominated by the company; Bemis, Tennessee, built by the Bemis Bag Company for mill workers; now a history district in Jackson; Coalmont, Tennessee, operated by the Sewanee Coal, Coke and Land Company; Norris, Tennessee, built and formerly owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority
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TVA still leans on its four remaining coal plants for 13% of its electricity production, though it plans to close its last coal plant by 2035. It generates over half of its power from carbon-free ...
TVA and DOE will develop a plan in coming months that could be used to provide DOE and other federal customers with 100% CFE by 2030 on a yearly basis DOE, TVA partner to power ORNL, Y-12 with 100 ...
The TVA established the stairway of nine dams and locks that turned the Tennessee River into a 652-mile-long river highway. Dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the river include the following (listed from the furthest upstream to the furthest downstream): Fort Loudoun Dam impounds Fort Loudoun Lake; Watts Bar Dam impounds Watts Bar Lake
Some of the agencies still exist today, while others have merged with other departments and agencies or were abolished. The agencies were sometimes referred to as alphabet soup . Libertarian author William Safire notes that the phrase "gave color to the charge of excessive bureaucracy."